Authentication Analytics and Monitoring

Overview#

A spike in failed logins at 3 am from an unfamiliar subnet is not noise. It is a signal. The Authentication Analytics and Monitoring module processes authentication events in real time, distinguishing routine variance from genuine threats before they escalate. Security teams get dashboards that answer meaningful questions quickly, rather than raw log exports that require hours of analysis.

This module is particularly valuable for organisations managing large, distributed user bases where manual review of authentication activity is not feasible.

Key Features#

Real-Time Authentication Dashboard: Monitor login success rates, failed authentication attempts, MFA usage patterns, and active sessions across your entire user base with live-updating dashboards that refresh as events arrive.
Breach Detection: Continuous monitoring against a large database of known compromised credentials alerts administrators when users are found to be using passwords that have appeared in data breaches, enabling proactive credential rotation before accounts are exploited.
Behavioural Baselines: Machine learning models establish normal authentication patterns per user, flagging deviations that indicate account compromise, credential stuffing, or insider threats. Baselines adapt as legitimate usage patterns evolve.
Geographic Anomaly Detection: The system identifies logins from unusual locations, impossible travel scenarios, and access originating from high-risk regions or anonymising networks such as Tor exit nodes, VPNs, and open proxies.
MFA Adoption Tracking: Monitor MFA enrolment rates, authentication method preferences, and identify users or departments that have not yet adopted multi-factor authentication. Drive adoption with targeted reports rather than manual roster checks.
Automated Alerting: Configure threshold-based and anomaly-based alerts for suspicious authentication events. Alerts route to email, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or your SIEM platform based on severity and event type.
Authentication Trend Analysis: Historical reporting on authentication patterns including peak login times, session duration trends, device and browser distribution, and authentication method usage over rolling periods.
Compliance Audit Trail: A complete authentication audit trail supports SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA requirements, with exportable reports formatted for auditors.

Use Cases#

Law enforcement agencies detecting credential stuffing targeting investigator accounts, where a compromised login could expose active case details.
Government departments monitoring for impossible travel and out-of-hours access to sensitive systems by privileged administrators.
Financial institutions tracking authentication anomalies as part of fraud detection and insider threat programmes.
Healthcare providers satisfying HIPAA access monitoring requirements with automated reports on authentication activity and MFA coverage.
Intelligence organisations using behavioural baselines to detect when authorised users are acting outside their normal operational patterns.

Dashboards and Reports#

Security Overview: High-level view of authentication health, active threats, and key metrics for security leadership
Failed Login Analysis: Breakdown of failed attempts by reason, user, source IP, and time period
MFA Coverage Report: Organisation-wide MFA enrolment and usage statistics by department and user group
Geographic Access Map: Visual map showing login locations with anomaly highlights
Provider Health: Status and performance metrics for each connected identity provider
User Risk Scores: Ranked list of users with elevated risk based on recent authentication behaviour

Integration#

SIEM Platforms: Forward authentication events and alerts to Splunk, Datadog, Azure Sentinel, and other solutions for centralised correlation.
Identity Providers: Aggregate authentication data from Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, Zitadel, Keycloak, and other SSO providers into a single analytics view.
Notification Channels: Route alerts through email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, and webhooks with configurable routing rules per event type.

Open Standards#

OAuth 2.0 (RFC 6749) and OpenID Connect (OIDC), authentication events ingested from connected identity providers use OAuth 2.0 token flows and OIDC discovery; the module consumes standard token introspection and userinfo responses without proprietary SDK dependencies.
SAML 2.0 (OASIS), federation events from SAML-based enterprise identity providers are normalised into the shared authentication event model, enabling analytics coverage across both modern OIDC and legacy SAML deployments.
SCIM 2.0 (RFC 7644), MFA enrolment and user lifecycle events sourced from SCIM provisioning flows are incorporated into coverage reports, ensuring that directory changes are reflected in MFA adoption dashboards.
WebAuthn / FIDO2 (W3C and FIDO Alliance), passkey and hardware authenticator events are classified and reported using the FIDO2 authenticator attachment and transport attributes, giving teams visibility into phishing-resistant MFA adoption separately from OTP and push methods.
NIST SP 800-63B (Digital Identity Guidelines), risk levels, credential strength tiers, and breach detection thresholds are aligned to the authenticator assurance levels defined in NIST SP 800-63B, providing a vendor-neutral basis for compliance reporting.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (Annex A.8, Technological Controls), the audit trail, anomaly alerting, and access monitoring capabilities are structured to satisfy the access control monitoring and logging requirements referenced in ISO 27001 control A.8.15 and A.8.16.
CEF (Common Event Format) and CEE (Common Event Expression), authentication events forwarded to SIEM platforms are serialised in CEF, the widely adopted open format for security event interchange, ensuring compatibility with Splunk, ArcSight, and other log management platforms without custom parsers.
RFC 5424 Syslog, structured syslog output is available for deployments that route authentication telemetry through existing syslog infrastructure rather than direct SIEM integrations.
GraphQL (June 2018 specification), the analytics query surface, dashboard data feeds, and alert configuration mutations are exposed through a typed GraphQL API, enabling composable, field-precise queries against authentication event history.
OAuth 2.0 Bearer Tokens (RFC 6750) and JWT (RFC 7519), all API calls to the analytics and monitoring surface require bearer tokens validated against the platform's JWKS endpoint; no session cookies are used for API access.

Availability#

Enterprise Plan: Included
Professional Plan: Core metrics included; advanced analytics and breach detection available as add-on

Last Reviewed: 2026-02-23 Last Updated: 2026-04-14